Sector Gloriana

Sector Gloriana was a sector of Western Front of World War I in the Artois region of France which, in the spring of 1918, was the site of heavy fighting between Entente and German forces.

The fighting started when three British Army battalions (of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, the Irish Guards, and the Hertfordshire Regiment), a US Army regiment (130th Regiment, 33rd Division and the 234th Regiment, 59th Division), a US Marine Corps company (55th Company, 5th Marine Regiment), the French Army's 217th Regiment, and the Belgian 10th Regiment launched an offensive against the German forces defending the Artois salient; the faced four German regiments and 2 battalions, including regulars, reservists, Landwehr, and Lower Silesian pioniers. The Entente and German forces battled for control of the redoubt frontlines, with the Entente taking it in their first attack and the Germans recapturing it. After a battle involving chemical gas attacks and several costly charges across no man's land, the Entente forces recaptured the redoubt, claiming some territorial gains by the time that both sides decided to halt the fighting.